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Yeah it's one of these things. What else are you suppose to do at 2:30 in the morning.

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

1. Every Time I Die

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
He Is Legend
Norma Jean
The Bled
Poison the Well
The Ghost of a Thousand
Cancer Bats

2. Senses Fail

Hawthorne Heights
Armor for Sleep
A Static Lullaby
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
From First to Last
Saosin
Finch

3. Dance Gavin Dance

Emarosa
Isles & Glaciers
Lower Definition
A Skylit Drive
Ghost Runner on Third
Pierce the Veil
Closure In Moscow
Of Machines

4.Thrice

Thursday
The Receiving End of Sirens
As Cities Burn
Emery


5. P.O.S.

Doomtree
Sims
Cecil Otter
Dessa
Mike Mictlan and Lazerbeak
Mac Lethal
Brother Ali
Atmosphere

6. Brand New

Manchester Orchestra
Taking Back Sunday
Kevin Devine
Straylight Run
Say Anything
Bayside
The Early November

7.The Fall of Troy

The Thirty Years War
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Tera Melos
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Fear Before


8. Alexisonfire

Enter Shikari
Underoath

9.The Dillinger Escape Plan

Converge
PsyOpus
Botch
Ion Dissonance
Between the Buried and Me
SikTh
Genghis Tron

10. A Day to Remember

Attack Attack!
In Fear and Faith
Set Your Goals
Burden of a Day

11. Buck 65

Sebutones
Bike For Three!
Sage Francis
Sole
Non-Prophets
Josh Martinez
Dose One
Cadence Weapon

12. New Found Glory

Fireworks
Hit the Lights
The Movielife
The Starting Line
The Wonder Years
This Time Next Year

13. The Sleeping

Secert Lives! Of The Freemasons
Four Letter Lie
Lower Definition
Therefore I Am
Boys Night Out
I Am the Avalanche

14. Rise Against

Strike Anywhere
Anti-Flag
Billy Talent
Sum 41
Ignite
The Offspring
Strung Out
Zebrahead

15. The Chariot

Oh, Sleeper
Luti-Kriss
Twelve Gauge Valentine
Architects

16. Four Year Strong

Me vs Hero
A Loss For Words

17. Circa Survive

Anthony Green
Audience of One
High and Driving
Chiodos

18. Silverstein

Alesana
Escape the Fate
LoveHateHero
Blessthefall

19. The Devil Wears Prada

August Burns Red
Miss May I
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Asking Alexandria

20. Protest the Hero

The Human Abstract


107/160

11-03 Minus the Bear @ Glass House
11-11 Glassjaw @ Mayan
11-12 Glassjaw @ Glass House
11-13 Red Sparowes @ Vacation Vinyl (FREE)
11-14 Russian Circles/Young Widows/Helms Alee @ The Echoplex
11-19 Mastodon/Dethklok/Converge/High on Fire @ Palladium
11-20 Deftones @ Avalon (Benefit for Chi)
12-03 Baroness @ The Troubadour
12-14 Mew @ Henry Fonda Theater
12-16 Melt-Banana/Tera Melos @ The Troubadour
01-04 Open Hand @ Spaceland
01-17 Between the Buried and Me/Cynic/DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND/Scale The Summit @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

Past shows for 2009:
01-03 Babyland @ Spaceland
01-16 North @ Knitting Factory
01-17 Autolux @ Henry Fonda Theatre
01-22 El Ten Eleven @ The Silver Lake Lounge
02-03 Meshuggah/Cynic *1*
02-05 El Ten Eleven/Charlotte Martin @ The Hotel Cafe
02-13 Don Caballero/sBACH @ Spaceland
02-19 Far @ The Velvet Jones
02-21 Grails @ Spaceland
03-14 Clevis/Solar Wimp/Totally Serious/The Littlest Viking @ the Cocaine
03-17 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Echoplex
03-20 Karin Tatoyan @ Spaceland
03-26 Forbidden @ Key Club
03-27 Pelican @ Troubadour
04-03 Acid Mothers Temple/Kinski @ The Echo
04-04 noodles/The Outline @ Silver Lake Lounge
04-05 Autolux @ Glass House
04-10 Karin Tatoyan @ Echo and El Ten Eleven @ Home [I made it to both shows!!!]
04-12 Silversun Pickups @ Glass House
04-14 Taproot @ Key Club
04-17 Kylesa/Intronaut/Made Out of Babies/Black Elk @ Echoplex
04-24 Emily Wells @ Bardot *1*
04-30 Silversun Pickups @ Echoplex
05-07 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum @ Key Club
05-09 Threadbare reunion show w/Unbroken @ Glass House
05-13 Traindodge/National Sunday Law @ Blue Monkey Bar
05-18 The Life and Times @ Spaceland
05-22 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-23 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-24 Gojira/Car Bomb @ Key Club *1*
06-04 Karin Tatoyan @ The Echo
06-05 King's X @ Key Club *1*
06-20 friday nights @ ???
06-21 Shellac/Arcwelder @ Echoplex
06-24 Isis @ Henry Fonda Theater *1*
07-11 Tortoise @ Troubadour *1*
07-22 Elbow @ Wiltern *1*
07-17 Three Mile Pilot @ Spaceland *1*
07-29 Themselves/[Post-Foetus]/Emily Wells @ Spaceland
08-03 Gomez @ Wiltern
08-05 Torche/Big Business @ Knitting Factory
08-11 Sunn O)))/The Accused/Eagle Twin @ Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock
08-14 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
08-20 friday nights @ the Gap in Studio City
08-28 Intronaut/Cattle Decapitation @ Cobalt Cafe
09-01 Mew @ The Troubadour
09-07 Mew @ the Detroit Bar
09-09 Emily Wells @ Echo
09-15 Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Fox Theater
09-30 Kylesa/Bison/Saviours/Black Math Horsemen @ Knitting Factory *1*
10-08 Coalesce/Cave In @ Knitting Factory
10-10 These Arms Are Snakes @ Knitting Factory
But seeing Far open for Thursday and could care less for Thursday
10-11 Sunny Day Real Estate @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-13 Mono/Maserati @ El Rey
10-15 Jesus Lizard @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-18 Dysrhythmia @ Relax Bar
10-24 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
10-28 Pelican @ The Troubadour
10-30 Professor Calculus @ The Smell

*1* Denotes that I didn't record the show...

10-08 Coalesce/Cave In @ Knitting Factory
10-10 These Arms Are Snakes @ Knitting Factory
But seeing Far open for Thursday and could care less for Thursday
10-11 Sunny Day Real Estate @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-13 Mono/Maserati @ El Rey
10-15 Jesus Lizard @ Henry Fonda Theater
10-18 Dysrhythmia @ Relax Bar
10-24 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
10-28 Pelican @ The Troubadour
11-03 Minus the Bear @ Glass House
11-11 Fu Manchu @ The Troubadour
11-14 Russian Circles/Young Widows/Helms Alee @ The Echoplex
11-19 Mastodon/Dethklok/Converge/High on Fire @ Palladium
12-03 Baroness @ The Troubadour
12-16 or 12-17 Melt-Banana/Tera Melos @ The Troubadour

Past shows for 2009:
01-03 Babyland @ Spaceland
01-16 North @ Knitting Factory
01-17 Autolux @ Henry Fonda Theatre
01-22 El Ten Eleven @ The Silver Lake Lounge
02-03 Meshuggah w/ Cynic *1*
02-05 El Ten Eleven w/Charlotte Martin @ The Hotel Cafe
02-13 Don Caballero w/sBACH @ Spaceland
02-21 Grails @ Spaceland
03-14 Clevis, Solar Wimp, Totally Serious, The Littlest Viking @ the Cocaine
03-17 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Echoplex
03-20 Karin Tatoyan @ Spaceland
03-26 Forbidden @ Key Club
03-27 Pelican @ Troubadour
04-03 Acid Mothers Temple w/Kinski @ The Echo
04-04 noodles w/The Outline @ Silver Lake Lounge
04-05 Autolux @ Glass House
04-10 Karin Tatoyan @ Echo and El Ten Eleven @ Home [I made it to both shows!!!]
04-12 Silversun Pickups @ Glass House
04-14 Taproot @ Key Club
04-17 Kylesa/Intronaut/Made Out of Babies/Black Elk @ Echoplex
04-24 Emily Wells @ Bardot *1*
04-30 Silversun Pickups @ Echoplex
05-07 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum @ Key Club
05-09 Threadbare reunion show w/Unbroken @ Glass House
05-13 Traindodge w/National Sunday Law @ Blue Monkey Bar
05-18 The Life and Times @ Spaceland
05-22 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-23 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-24 Gojira/Car Bomb @ Key Club *1*
06-04 Karin Tatoyan @ The Echo
06-05 King's X @ Key Club *1*
06-20 friday nights @ ???
06-21 Shellac/Arcwelder @ Echoplex
06-24 Isis @ Henry Fonda Theater *1*
07-11 Tortoise @ Troubadour *1*
07-22 Elbow @ Wiltern
07-17 Three Mile Pilot @ Spaceland *1*
07-29 Themselves/[Post-Foetus]/Emily Wells @ Spaceland
08-03 Gomez @ Wiltern
08-05 Torche/Big Business @ Knitting Factory
08-11 Sunn O))) @ Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock
08-14 El Ten Eleven @ Bootleg Theater
08-20 friday nights @ the Gap in Studio City
08-28 Intronaut/Cattle Decapitation @ Cobalt Cafe
09-01 Mew @ The Troubadour
09-07 Mew @ the Detroit Bar
09-09 Emily Wells @ Echo
09-15 Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Fox Theater
09-30 Kylesa/Bison/Saviours/Black Math Horsemen @ Knitting Factory

*1* Denotes that I didn't record the show...

A list of every band (that i can remember) that I have seen live. A lot of these I saw at festivals (warped, ozzfest, lollapalooza) and I don't even like the band, but whatever. I'm still surprised I haven't seen any bands 4 times.

X4
Downtown Brown

X3

Atreyu (I'm really sad to admit this, but it's true. I only, went to see them one of the times.)
Coheed and Cambria
The Fall of Troy
Foxy Shazam
So Many Dynamos


X2

Avenged Sevenfold
Circa Survive
The Dear Hunter
Fear Before the March of Flames
Maps & Atlases
Nine Inch Nails
nsdwhoa!
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Unearth


X1

30 Seconds to Mars

Apres Vous
The Aquabats
Armor for Sleep
As Tall as Lions
ASHES dIVIDE
Audioslave

Bad Religion
The Bayonet
Bigelf
Black Label Society
Blessthefall
Boys Like Girls
The Bravery

Cast Spells
Chris Cornell

Damien Jurado
Damiera
Dance Gavin Dance
Disturbed
The Donnas
DragonForce
Dub Trio

Eighteen Visions
Emarosa

The Family Riot

Hatebreed
Hawthorne Heights
Heavy Heavy Low Low
HORSE the band

I Am The Ocean
If These Trees Could Talk
Incubus

Jane's Addiction
Jurassic 5

Karate High School
Killswitch Engage
Kings of Leon
KISS

La Dispute
Lacuna Coil
Linkin Park

M83
Maid Myriad
MC Supernatural
mewithoutYou
Misery Signals

Nicholas Megalis

Of Mice & Men
Ours

Paramore
Poison
Portugal. The Man
Protest the Hero
Psalters
Psychostick

Queens of the Stone Age

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Rx Bandits

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
The Sounds
The Spill Canvas
Street Drum Corps
Suburban Legends
System of a Down

Tera Melos
Thursday
Tides of Man

We Came As Romans
Wild Boy of Aveyron

Young Widows

(LAST UPDATED: OCTOBER 19TH, 2009)

311
A Perfect Circle
Aaron Simpson x 4
Acceptance
AIDS Wolf
Aimee Mann
AK1200 x 4
Alkaline Trio
All Time Low
Allister
??? (A-Mei Zhang)
Anadivine
Anavan x 2 - live show review
Anberlin x 2
Andy C
Andy Combs And The Moth
Anthony Green
Aphrodite
Armor for Sleep - band interview
Arthur & Yu - live show review
Atmosphere
Audioslave
Aunt Dracula
Ayyokko Confidential
Battles - live show review
Better Than Ezra
Billy Talent
Bird Show of North America - live show review
Black Eyes And Neckties - live show review
Blake Lewis
Boy Eats Drum Machine
Brand New x 2
British Sea Power
BT x 3
By the End of Tonight
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Chairlift x 2 - live show review
Champagne, Champagne
Chevelle
Chrisopher Blue - musician interview
Church x 2
Circa Survive x 2 - band interview
Circle Jerks
Clipd Beaks
Coheed and Cambria
Colonies
Constantines - live show review
controller controller - live show review
Copeland
Crom - live show review
Crystal Antlers - band interview
Crystal Castles
Crystal Skulls
Cursive
Dan Deacon - live show review
Daphne Loves Derby - band interview
Darude
Dashboard Confessional
Dead Poetic
Death Cab for Cutie
Death is not a joyride. - band interview . video interview
Death Set
Decoder
Deepsky x 2
Demo x 2
DeVotchKa
Dieselboy x 3
Dizzee Rascal
DJ Baby Anne x 2
DJ Chopstix x 2
DJ Craze x 2
DJ Dara x 4
DJ Icey x 2
DJ Micro
DJ Z-Trip
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Dowlz x 4
dredg
Drop N Harmony
Dub Trio
Echo & The Bunnymen
Ed Rush
Ed Rush & Optical
Eisley x 3 - live show review . band interview
Explosions in the Sky x 2 - live show review
Extreme Animals
Facing New York x 2 - band interview
FACT
Feist
Feral Children - live show review
Ferry Corsten
Final Fantasy - live show review
Finch
Freeland - live show review
French Toast - live show review
Fresh of BadCompany
Garbage
Gatsby's American Dream
Gigi Leung
Gladiators Eat Fire - live show review
Glasvegas
Go Like Hell
Goo Goo Dolls
Good Charlotte x 2
Grand Hallway - band interview
Great Northern
Greenwheel
Grieves
Guitar Wolf
Guns N' Roses - live show review
Gym Class Heroes - live show review
Hail Seizures - live show review
Hawthorne Heights - live show review
Head Like a Kite
HEALTH x 3 - live show review
helio sequence x 4
Hellogoodbye x 2 - band interview
Her Three Eyes
Hive x 2
Hockey
Hometown Heroes
Hoobastank x 3
Hopesfall - live show review
Hot Water Music
Hyperpotamus - live show review
Incubus x 4
Innerlude
Instant Winner x 2
Invention - live show review
JamisonParker
Jane's Addiction
Japanther
Jason Anderson - live show review
Jason Mraz
Jeffrey Jerusalem
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
Jimmy Eat World x 2 - live show review
Jimmy Lin
J-Majik x 2
John B
k-os - live show review
Kai
KBN
Killa Kellah
Kimya Dawson - live show review
Kinski
Kotra - live show review
Liam Finn
Lisa Hannigan - live show review
Look. See. Proof.
Low Vs Diamond
LTJ Bukem x 3
Man Man - live show review
Marc Cohn
March Fourth Marching Band
Mars & Mystre x 2
Mattress
Menomena
Mercir
Metric x 2
mewithoutYou
Micachu - live show review
Monotonix x 3
MSTRKRFT
Mutemath x 2 - band interview
MxPx x 4
My Brightest Diamond x 2 - live show review
My Chemical Romance x 2
My Jerusalem
N.A.S.A.
Narrows - live show review
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
New Found Glory x 3
Night Canopy
Nine Inch Nails
Nitsuj
No Age
No Doubt
No Knife
No Use for a Name
NOFX
Now It's Overhead - live show review
Nurses x 9 - live show review . band interview
O+S - live show review
of Montreal - live show review
Ole Time Relijun
OM - live show review
Open Hand
P.O.S. - live show review
Panic! At the Disco
Panther
Past Lives - live show review
Paul Oakenfold x 2
Paul van Dyk x 2
Pendulum x 2
Pinay
pirate radio
Pirqulators
Plain White T's - live show review . band interview
Port O' Brien - live show review
PRE
Quasi
Rabbit in the Moon
Red West
Reggie and the Full Effect x 2 - band interview
Reid Speed
RICE RIOT
Richard Humpty Vission
Rob Noble
Rocky Votolato
Room For A Ghost
Ruby Doe x 2
Rudy and The Rhetoric
Rufio
Russian Circles - band interview
Rx Bandits - live show review
Scissors For Lefty - live show review . band interview
Sebastian Bach
Sebastien Grangier
Senses Fail
Shout Out Out Out
Shunza
Silversun Pickups - band interview
Simple Plan x 2
Sleepy Eyes of Death - live show review
Sloan
Small Sails
Sneaky Thieves
So Dopp
Something Corporate
Sparta
Stakka & Skynet
Stereo Lynch
Stereo Total - live show review
Sugarcult x 4
Sum 41 x 2
Taj
Tech Itch x 2
Tera Melos
Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down
The Aquabats - band interview
The Ataris x 2
The Aural Sect x 2
The Bird and the Bee
The Black Lips
The Bronx - live show review
The Cops
The Crystal Method x 2
The Decemberists x 4 - live show review (1) . (2) . band interview
The Distillers
The Divorce
The Donnas
The Early November
The Epoxies
The Escape Frame - live show review
The Everyday Visuals - live show review . band interview . acapella video performance
The Faint
The Fall of Troy x 4 - live show review (1) . (2)
The Golden Bears - live show review
The Horrors - live show review
The Juliana Theory x 3
The Kills - live show review
The Little Ones
The Mae Shi x 2 - live show review
The Movielife
The Myriad
The Nemesis Theory
The Paper Route
The People Now x 2
The Phenomenauts
The Polysics - band interview
The push
The Rocket Summer
The Starting Line x 2
The Thermals
The Used
The Walkmen
The Valley Arena x 2 - band interview
These Arms Are Snakes x 3 - live show review
Third Eye Blind
This Providence x 2 - band interview
Thrice x 3
Thursday - live show review
Tiesto
Tilly and the Wall - live show review
Trap Them - live show review
Trash Talk
Type
Vanessa Carlton
Vedera
Vendetta Red x 2
Viva Voce
Vivian Girls
Voice5
Wizards
Yellowcard
Zacharia x 2
Zebrahead
Zee Avi - live show review
Zhang ZhengYue

...can't remember who this came from...

The point is to start at your #1 Overall Top Artist, don't include in the list, and then follow the similar artists steps to find out where you went 50 steps down the line. You were to use the 1st similar artist unless it was already on your list, if it was you used the second, if that was the third....You get the point...No repetition or you'd just go in circles.

1) Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez
2) Zechs Marquise
3) Crime In Choir (No need to include another Omar collaboration)
4) Volta Do Mar
5) Piglet
6) Tera Melos
7) By the End of Tonight
8) Giraffes? Giraffes! (More "math rock"? More "math rock"!)
9) Auto!Automatic!! (Exclamation points! More exclamation points!!)
10)We Are Knives (Maybe my new band should be dubbed "We Are Scientists With Knives")
11) Sorry No Ferrari (Mystical Journey my ass...this is a journey through some of the worst band names in the history of modern music)
12) Planets
13) SWIMS
14) Tenebre
15) Pele
16) Ghosts and Vodka
17) Noyes
18) Make Believe
19) Joan of Arc (Stuck in the hilarious genre "post-rock")
20) Tim Kinsella
21) Friend/Enemy
22) Owls
23) The One Up Downstairs
24) Algernon Cadwallader (Seriously...)
25) Street Smart Cyclist
26) Boy Problems (Entering "screamo" now...this is getting pathetic)
27) Lion of the North (eh...at least their name is cute)
28) lautrec
29) Make Me
30) Storm the Bastille
31) In First Person
32) L'antietam (Have entered the faux French New England Screamo scene...can this get any worse...)
33) Loma Prieta (This group's 2nd most common tag is "emo violence"...unbelievable)
34) Sailboats
35) I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism in Your Yearbook (I know what you're thinking...yes, that is an actual band's name)
36) the birds are spies, they report to the trees
37) Catena Collapse
38) D'Amore
39) FICTION LIKE NON-FICTION ("WE PLAY SCREAMO MUSIC IN ALL CAPS")
40) I Spoke
41) The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra
42) Louise Cyphre (German emo violence now...I picture the love child of Hitler and Gerard Way)
43) La Quiete
44) Raein
45) Daïtro
46) Sed Non Satiata (French screamo...why am I continuing this madness)
47) Mihai Edrisch
48) Celeste
49) Time to Burn
50) I Pilot Daemon

So...from an experimental progressive rock guitarist's solo work to math rock all the way to the Toulouse Screamo scene...why did I do this again?

Upcoming Southern California shows...
05-07 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum @ Key Club
05-09 Threadbare reunion show w/Unbroken @ Glass House
05-13 Traindodge w/National Sunday Law @ Blue Monkey Bar
05-21 Ninja Academy/Clevis/Totally Serious @ the Smell
05-22 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-23 dredg/Torche @ Troubadour
05-24 Gojira/Car Bomb @ Key Club
06-01 Big Business @ The Troubadour
06-05 King's X @ Key Club
06-20 friday nights @ ???
06-21 Shellac @ Echoplex
06-24 Isis @ Henry Fonda Theater
07-22 Elbow @ Wiltern

2009 Shows that I've been to
01-03 Babyland @ Spaceland
01-16 North @ Knitting Factory
01-17 Autolux @ Henry Fonda Theatre
01-22 El Ten Eleven @ The Silver Lake Lounge
02-03 Meshuggah w/ Cynic
02-05 El Ten Eleven w/Charlotte Martin @ The Hotel Cafe
02-13 Don Caballero w/sBACH @ Spaceland
02-21 Grails @ Spaceland
03-14 Clevis, Solar Wimp, Totally Serious, The Littlest Viking @ the Cocaine
03-17 ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Echoplex
03-20 Karin Tatoyan @ Spaceland
03-26 Forbidden @ Key Club
03-27 Pelican @ Troubadour
04-03 Acid Mothers Temple w/Kinski @ The Echo
04-04 noodles w/The Outline @ Silver Lake Lounge
04-05 Autolux @ Glass House
04/10 Karin Tatoyan @ Echo and El Ten Eleven @ Home [Going to try to make both shows!!!]
04-12 Silversun Pickups @ Glass House
04-14 Taproot @ Key Club
04-17 Kylesa/Intronaut/Made Out of Babies/Black Elk @ Echoplex

2008 Past shows:
02-25 Solare/The Valley Arena free @ The Troubadour
03-01 El Ten Eleven @ The Scene
03-14 El Ten Eleven @ Pehrspace
03-17 Explosions in the Sky @ Wiltern
03-20 El Ten Eleven w/ Ninja Academy/Tera Melos @ The Fold
03-25 Bob Mould @ El Rey
03-27 Russian Circles/Red Sparowes @ Echo Plex
04-18 Converge/Genghis Tron "Murder Fest" @ Knitting Factory
04-30 El Ten Eleven @ Spaceland
05-03 Clevis @ No Voice Fest
05-14 Kid Dakota (Ian Prince from Houston) @ Knitting Factory
05-16 Big Business/Qui/400 Blows @ the Scene
05-29 Riddle of Steel @ On The Rox
05-30 Swervedriver @ Casbah's
05-31 Swervedriver @ Henry Fonda
06-06 31 Knots @ Knitting Factory
06-15 Russian Circles @ Troubadour
06-20 Dysrhythmia/Ninja Academy @ Knitting Factory
06-24 Stone Temple Pilots @ The Hollywood Bowl
07-24 The Life and Times @ Spaceland
08-27 Intronaut/Behold The Arctopus/National Sunday Law @ Knitting Factory
08-28 System & Station @ Knitting Factory
09-18 Deftones @ Spaceland
09-21 Goldfrapp @ The Orpheum Theatre
10-09 Rival Schools @ the Echo
10-11 Denali @ the EchoPlex
10-13 El Ten Eleven @ Spaceland
10-15 Far @ the Glass House
10-16 Far @ the Troubadour
10-31 Helmet @ the Viper Room
11-15 Torche @ Spaceland
11-20 Jane's Addiction @ El Cid =>no go, long story, oh well
11-22 National Sunday Law / Intronaut / Exhausted Prayer & more @ Relax Bar
12-02 Karin Tatoyan @ Echoplex (Armenian Version of Bjork)
12-06 Ninja Academy & Woven CD release party @ Hangar 1018
12-10 El Ten Eleven @ Hotel Cafe
12-11 God Is an Astronaut @ Knitting Factory
12-16 The Sword @ Viper Room
12-20 Ninja Academy & The Great Deceivers @ Spaceland: The Great Deceivers = 70s era King Crimson tribute band)

Wed 18 Mar – SXSW Music Conference and Festival
A brief rundown of who I saw at SXSW this March and who my favorites were....

Wednesday (Mar 18):
Cuntwise Mona (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
smoke and feathers (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Black Diamond Heavies (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Prayer For Animals (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
dd/mm/yyyy (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Thomas Function (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Your 33 Black Angels (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Haunting Oboe Music (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Golden Animals (Fastfolks Cyclery party)
Tera Melos (The Music Gym)
AUN (The Music Gym)

Thursday (Mar 19):
Tim Easton (New West Records party, Club Deville)
Corb Lund (New West Records party, Club Deville)
Mark Olson and Gary Louris (New West Records party, Club Deville)
The Morning Benders (Home Slice Pizza)
Dead Confederate (Home Slice Pizza)
Junius (The Ale House)
Hull (The Ale House)
Fuckshovel (Spiro's Amphitheater)
Dead Confederate (Spiro's)
Goes Cube (The Ale House)
Annihilation Time (Room 710)
Earthless (Room 710)

Friday (Mar 20):
Moth!Fight! (Emo's Annex)
Frances (Flamingo Cantina)
Woodgrain (Typewriter Museum)
Butcher Bear and Charlie's Roller Coaster Band (Typewriter Museum)
UME (Typewriter Museum)
THE SLANTS (Typewriter Museum)
Asakusa Jinta (Typewriter Museum)
The Republic Tigers (Home Slice Pizza)
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (Home Slice Pizza)
Say Hi (Home Slice Pizza)
Hamell on Trial (Soho Lounge)
Eagle Twin (Emo's Annex)
The Felice Brothers (Habana Bar Backyard)
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (Habana Bar Backyard)
Tim Easton (Habana Bar Backyard)
Pelican (Emo's Annex)

Saturday (Mar 21):
The Victor Mourning (Yard Dog Gallery)
Jad Fair (Yard Dog Gallery)
Tim Easton (Yard Dog Gallery)
Jason Lytle (Hot Freaks Party, Mohawk)
Vetiver (Mess With Texas 3, Waterloo Park)
Jason Lytle (Mess With Texas 3, Waterloo Park)
Dead Confederate (Side Bar)

...and at this point I had had it. Ended up that I had the flu, which kicked my butt for the next week.

So, 46 shows in 4 days...not too bad, but fewer than I had hoped. I ended up seeing more of my favorite bands as opposed to my normal mode of operation of checking out new music during SXSW.

Best day parties were certainly at Fast Folks Cyclery, Home Slice Pizza, and of course at the Typewriter Museum.

Bands seen most times: Dead Confederate, Tim Easton, each three times and excellent for each one of them.

Best new-to-me bands: Felice Brothers (ridiculously entertaining stage show), Junius (excellent post-metal from Boston)

Best showcase: Habana Bar Backyard, which featured the one-two-three punch of Felice Brothers, Jason Isbell, and Tim Easton.

Most welcome return to Austin: Hamell on Trial (the crowd at Soho Lounge was jacked, you could tell there were a lot of ex-Electric Lounge'ers there)